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Facts and Events
| Name |
Edmund Lewis |
| Alt Name |
Edmond Lewes |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
1601 |
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| Marriage |
Bef 1631 |
Englandto Mary _____ |
| Residence[1] |
1634 |
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Immigration[3] |
10 Apr 1634 |
Ipswich, EnglandAboard the Elizabeth 1634 |
| Other[1] |
25 May 1636 |
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesAdmitted freeman of Massachusetts Bay. |
| Residence[1] |
1648 |
Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Will[3][4] |
13 Jan 1650/51 |
Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States |
| Death[1][3][4] |
Bet 13 Jan 1650/51 and 12 Feb 1650/51 |
Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts, United States (probably)Between date of will and date of inventory. |
| Estate Inventory[1] |
12 Feb 1650/51 |
£122 7s. 6d. (against which were debts of £7 6s. 1d.), with no real estate included. |
| Probate[1] |
25 Feb 1650/51 |
Will proved. |
Information about Edmond's ancestry comes from "Edmund Lewis of Lynn and some of his desc" by George Harlan Lewis. The claim is made that
Edmond Lewis was the son of George Lewis of Llystalybont, Glamorgan, Wales. There is no documentation to support this claim, nor to
support the claim that Edmond Lewis married Mary Carey of Kings Lynn, Norfolk, England.
Appears on the Elizabeth passenger list as "Edmond Lewis" age 33, with Marry (32), John (3) and Thomas (3/4), traveling from Suffolk to Watertown. The Elizabeth left Ipswich on April 30, 1634. In Watertown, he served as selectman in 1636 and was granted 30 acres in the "Great Dividend" on 25 Jul 1636, as well as additional smaller plots in 1637 and 1638. He eventually held six Watertown parcels. He bought 10 acres in Hampton with Henry Dow in 1644, and he was still listed "of Watertown". That land was sold in 1649, when Edmond was "of Linn."
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Lewis, Edward Simmons. The Lewis family of Wales and America, origin, ancestry and some of the descendants. The Journal of American History. (1928).
- Lewis, George Harlan. Edmund Lewis of Lynn, Massachusetts : and some of his descendants. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1977).
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Edmond Lewis, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011).
MIGRATION: 1634 on the Elizabeth (on 30 April 1634, "Edmond Lewis," aged 33, "Mary his wife," aged 32, "John Lewis," aged 3, and "Thomas Lewis, aged 3 quarters," were enrolled at Ipswich as passengers for New England on the Elizabeth [Hotten 280-81]).
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown. REMOVES: Lynn 1648.
BIRTH: About 1601 (aged 33 on 30 April 1634 [Hotten 280]).
DEATH: Between 13 January 1650[/1] (date of will) and 12 February 1650[/1] (date of inventory).
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Massachusetts (Colony). Quarterly Courts (Essex County). Records and files of the Quarterly Courts of Essex County, Massachusetts. (Salem, Massachusetts: The Essex Institute, 1911-1925, 1975)
1:207.
Will of Edmund Lewis of Lynn, dated 13 : 11 : 1650 [13 Jan 1650/51], proved 25 : 12 : 1650 [25 Feb 1650/51], mentions "my eldeste sone John Lewis", "the reste of my Children namly the fiue youngeste", "my sone Thomas Lewis", "wife to be my whole Executor", "Thomas Austines to be my supervisor". Inventory take 12 : 12 : 1650 [12 Feb 1650/51].
- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
3:85.
EDMUND, Lynn, was first at Watertown, rem. a. 1643, not, as Lewis has it, 1640, came in the Elizabeth, from Ipswich 1634, aged 33, with w. Mary, 32; and two ch. John, 3 yrs. and Thomas, 9 mos. had James, b. 15 Jan. 1636; and Nathaniel, 25 Aug. 1639, b. at W. beside a ch. bur. 6 Nov. 1642, 10 days old, and had two more ch. b. at L. where he d. 1651. His will, of 18 Jan. pro. 20 Feb. 1651, names w. extrix. and s. John and Thomas. His wid. Mary d. 7 Sept. 1658.
| Founders of Watertown, MA
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| Located along the Charles River, Watertown was one of the first settlements in Massachusetts Bay Colony. After a brief stay by Roger Clapp and others who then went on to settle Dorchester. In late July 1630, Sir Richard Saltonstall led a group of about 115 households to settle at Watertown, which at the time included parts of present-day Cambridge and much of the surrounding area; the population approached Boston's in the mid 17th century. In 1632 the residents of Watertown protested against being compelled to pay a tax for the erection of a stockade fort at Cambridge; leading to the establishment of representative government in the colony.
Full list of original heads of households
See also: History of Watertown - Wikipedia entry - Richard Saltonstall on Wikipedia
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Current Location: Middlesex County, Massachusetts Parent Towns: None Daughter Towns: Cambridge, Weston, Waltham, Belmont, Lincoln
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